Police fire rounds and rounds of tear gas again at every exit they try to leave. The protesters are forced to trap in PolyU.
#antielab
#hongkongprotests
Thousands of protesters rallied on Monday night to call for the support on the HK Human Rights and Democracy Act. It is also the first rally that obtained non-objection letter from the police since the
#AntiMaskLaw
is implemented. Yet, many still wear their masks tonight.
It’s 3am in Hong Kong. First round of Apple Daily newspapers have almost sold out in Mong Kok. People are waiting for the second round to arrive. Hong Kongers are unstoppable.
#PressFreedom
Miss Yu and her 9 years old son Sunny join
#HongKongProtests
this afternoon, despite the new law barring public gatherings of more than four people. “We need to stand with our brothers and sisters,” said Sunny.
PLA soldiers in riot equipments anxiously scouting inside the Gun Club Hill Barracks, a military camp that is right next to Polyu.
#antielab
#hongkongprotests
They also chant “Myanmar people, Add Oil”, “Support democracy and freedom and “Against a totalitarian government” with a three-finger salute in solidarity with the Myanmar protesters.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Meanwhile, around a thousand protesters form a human chain along Nathan Road from Tsim Sha Tsui to Jordan, shining mobile light and chanting the usual protest slogans.
#antielab
#hongkongprotests
Hundreds of protesters attend the rally organised by Union for New Civil Servants chairman to show support to frontline medical staff frontline civil servants. They demand the govt to provide enough protective equipments and better working arrangements amid the
#WuhanCoronavirus
.
Heavy riot police presence before the start of the first major protest against Beijing’s controversial plan to directly impose national security laws in HongKong.
#HongKongProstests
A group of Hong Kong activists projected the national flag of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and slogans of "Hong Konger
#StandWithUkriane
"and "
#GlorytoUkraine
" to the Clock Tower in Tsim Sha Tsui tonight.
📸: Anonymous
Nearly a year after Henry and Elaine were first arrested, the newlyweds were tried on charges of rioting, an offense carrying a penalty of up to 10 years in jail. We followed them as they braced for a life apart and learned their fate today.
Hong Kong pro-democracy and pro-government lawmakers are arguing with each other inside the chamber to take control of the Legco house committee meeting. It is set to start at 2:30pm.
#HongKongProtests
A frontline protester just make a speech in Yoho Mall saying that without the peaceful protesters, valiant protesters would fail. He then led the crowd to chant
#antielab
slogans and echo through the mall.
#hongkongprotests
In life, we never know when rainbows appear, but the truly special ones perhaps emerge during our darkest hours. Here on the besieged
#PolyU
campus, one arcs near the bridge where protesters made a daring escape past walls of riot police
#HongKongProtests
#StandWithHongKong
Today is the first mention of the 15 pro-democracy activists including Martin Lee, Margaret Ng and Jimmy Lai who are being charged with knowingly taking part in an unauthorized assembly. They are soon surrounded by the media once they arrives.
#HongKongProtests
Today is the third day of the 5-days long labour strike of medical workers to call for closure of border with mainland China. Winnie Yu, chairwoman of the HA employee alliance come to the govt HQ this morning to demand for an open dialogue with Carrie Lam.
#WuhanCoronavius
Activist Alexandra Wong, who’s also known as “Grandma Wong”, is also taken away by the police as she holds flowers high up in the air to mourn the victims of the China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Is it how Hong Kong police treat female journalists? An independent media has reported that my friend
@_jasmineleung_
from NBC TV Network was groped by an officer and later pepper-sprayed when she asked for his police ID. It is intolerable.
#HongKongProtests
#antiELAB
“(His death) means something that is unresolved and something that needs to be fully investigated and I believe all the people here want an answer. It’s an absolute tragedy.” Via
@pakwayne
#hongkongprotests
#antielab
A bird flies in front of Ivan Lam and
@joshuawongcf
as they walk to a prison van to head to court, after pleading guilty to charges of organising and inciting an unauthorised assembly near the police headquarters during last year's
#HongKongProtests
. 📸: REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Police stop and search a young people in Kowloon King George V Memorial Park before the start of an impetuous protest called by the protesters online.
#HongKongProtests
Families of some of the
#12HKyouth
and
@save12hkyouths
members protested on a peak at Kat O today, one of the closest spots in HK to Yantian where the 12 were detained. They chanted “release the 12” while holding white banners reading “SAVE 12” and “Return Home”.
Today marks the one year anniversary of the death of Marco Leung, aka the yellow raincoat man, who fell from construction scaffolding after unfurling banners against now suspended legislation that would have let people be sent to mainland China for trial.
#HongKongProtests
“This is a small victory. I hope Hong Kongers won’t give up. Although the rule of law has been challenged in the past couple of years, we need to maintain our hope,” said Leung, who also says he was beaten by officers.
#HongKongProtests
Hong Kong protesters, many dressed in black and wearing surgical masks amid fears over the new coronavirus, held sit-ins in the Chinese-ruled city on Friday to mark seven months since an attack by an armed mob on anti-government demonstrators.
#antiELAB
Hundreds of protesters gather outside Lai Chi Kwok Holding Centre to show support to the arrestees who are still being detained inside.
#CNY2020
#antielab
#hongkongprotests
Protesters hold white paper and gather in Hong Kong to show solidarity with the weekend protests in Shanghai, Beijing, and in other cities across China against stringent COVID-19 measures.
#A4Revolution
Around a hundred people braved the rain in Fo Tan where the govt plan to use Chung Yeung Estate, a newly-built govt subsidised residential building as a quarantine centre. Some had waited 8 years for their homes and were expecting to get keys by the end of this month.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." –Winston Churchill. Beijing's move will likely spark fresh summer protests in HK. Many young Hkers tell me they will never give up,even after this.
#HongKongProtests
Mr Ng, 87, a catholic holds a placard reads “abolish national security law, implement ICCPR, release political prisoners, may the Lord look upon Hong Kong”.
Before the police cordon off section of the mall and break up the protest to “celebrate” Carrie Lam’s birthday, protesters were chanting slogans and singing peacefully in the New Town Plaza.
#HongKongProtests
In life, we never know when rainbows appear, but the truly special ones perhaps emerge during our darkest hours. Here on the besieged
#PolyU
campus, one arcs near the bridge where protesters made a daring escape past walls of riot police
#HongKongProtests
#StandWithHongKong
Morning. People started queuing for a ticket to enter the court since yesterday. “I am here since 5am. We have been taking shift since yesterday. Our friend is among those being charged. We stay here so that we can get early tickets to enter the court,” Kristine, 20.
CUHK's student union disbanded today.
"For fifty years CUSU existed as an independent student organization whose representatives were elected through a democratic process. It is a matter of profound regret that CUSU is now history," the statement said.
“But I am persuaded that, neither prison bars, nor election bans, nor any other arbitrary powers would stop us from activism. What we are doing now is to explain the value of freedom to the world,”
@joshuawongcf
said ahead of the court appearance.
Today is the last day of pro-democracy camp primaries. More than 230,000 Hkers have cast their votes yesterday, according to the organisers. Long queues continue to form outside polling stations. “If we don’t do it, we will never succeed. Don’t give up,”said HK artist Deanie Ip.
There is always light even in the darkest hour. I see hope in my people. And because of that, both as a Hong Konger and a journalist, I will report until the very end. This is the only thing I know and can do for my home city.
#StandWithHongKong
#PressFredoom
#HongKongProtests
Inside Poly U now with a Reuters team. We’ll stay whatever happens. A sense of foreboding amid grave fears of a bloody showdown, hundreds of tenacious and desperate protesters trapped on all sides by police, some highly on edge
#HK
#HongKongProtests
#StandWithHongKong
8 of the
#12HKYouth
are set to be back from Shenzhen to Hong Kong today. Activist Grandma Wong holds a banner reads “Free All Political Prisoners” outside the Tin Shui Wai Police Station as she waits for their return.
Reporters being stopped and searched this morning outside the Hong Kong Arts Centre, including myself. I tried to film another reporter being stopped and searched and they stopped me, asked me to turn off my phone and not film.
A group of protesters set alight on Sunday the lobby of a newly built residential building in Hong Kong that authorities planned to use as a quarantine facility, as public fears about the coronavirus outbreak intensified.
#WuhanCoronavirus
#WuhanPneumonia
‘HK has become a jail. No one can get out. We’re all trapped.’
What’s next for
#HongKongProtests
?
There’s no definite answer but a story of four activists united by a deep love of their city. w/
@jamespomfret
@karihow
Hundreds of medical workers joined the second day of the labour strike to demand the government to shut the border with China to contain the spread of the
#WuhanCoronovirus
in the community.
#HonKongProtests
“Now it’s the beginning of the end and time is really running out in Hong Kong, and that’s the reason for us, even though there’s an outbreak of the COVID-19, we still need to be gather on the street to protest,” said activist
@joshuawongcf
.
#HongKongProstests
Some sobbed and wept as they issued several demands, including that those detained be allowed to consult lawyers appointed by the families and not the Chinese government and should be allowed to call their relatives in Hong Kong.
Photo: Reuters/Tyrone Siu
People are chanting the now banned
#HongKongProtests
slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times” and “Fight for freedom, Stand with Hong Kong”.
In the time of tear gas, Tony met Wing, his first love at college. At the age of 18, he already learnt that nothing lasts forever and yet he’s determined to defend his loved one and the city.
@LeahMillis
@saitomri
#HongKongProtests
Today marks the one year anniversary of Alex Chow’s death. A pair of black banners saying “Just want to be happy” and “Justice will prevail” hang outside the car park where he fell and sustained fatal head injuries due to unclear circumstances in a
#HongKongProtest
last year.
“The govt didn’t listen to public demands of a complete border closure, and now they want to set up epidemic clinics in 18 districts. Doing that is like creating more wounds rather than trying to stop the bleeding,” Tin Shui Wai resident Chan Mei-lin said.
A “yellow economy” of businesses has sprung up in Hong Kong to support anti-government protesters, but online store Jimmy Jungle is zeroing in on young demonstrators stuck in detention. Story with
@pakwayne
#HongKongProtests
#YellowEconomy
#HongKong
's next leader
#JohnLee
is set to be endorsed by around 1,460 pro-Beijing loyalists today.
Police searched the bags of Chan Po Ying, Chairwoman of League of Social Democrats and two other members before their protest started.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Hong Kong on Sunday to demonstrate against a new
#NationalSecurityLaw
imposed by China and the postponement of legislative elections.
A lone protester light up candles in
#HKU
to commemorate the victims of the Urumqi fire and to show solidarity with the protests across China and aboard.
Today is the first day of pro-democracy camp primary elections. Although the Housing Authority and few landlords have forced some polling stations to stop their work, there are 250 voting stations running across
#HongKong
, including this bus polling station near West Kowloon.
A year ago today: More than a million people had jammed Hong Kong’s streets to protest the now-withdrawn extradition bill in the biggest demonstration in years. Many said they feared it put the city’s vaunted legal independence at risk.
#HongKongProtests
Chow Hang-tung is one of the few activists in HK still speaking out against the Communist Party’s crackdown in the city. Her story shows how Beijing is trying to silence civil rights lawyers in HK – as it is doing on the mainland. w/
@jamespomfret
In Hong Kong’s Victoria Park, where people had come together for an annual vigil before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, authorities blocked off main parts of the venue and warned people against illegal gatherings. Full Story:
Several district councillors were rounded up before the start of the one year anniversary Yuen Long mob attack presser. The police said they violated the gathering ban of no more than 4 people.
#HongKongProtests
HK pro-democracy activist and former lawmaker "Long Hair" protests against the national security law with others at the Liaison Office. “After that, I will be arrested, we will be arrested, since I will protest against the one party rule against China,” he said
#HongKongProtests
A Hong Kong court sentenced a 36-year-old barrister
@zouxingtong
to 15 months in prison for inciting an unauthorised assembly to commemorate those who died in China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Today marks the one year anniversary of June 12. At least a hundred of protesters sang the protest anthem song “Glory to HK” peacefully in Mong Kok before the police raised blue warning flag and condoned off the area.
#HongKongProtests
Journalists from more than seven organisations, including Reuters, have been blocked from covering official ceremonies to mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese rule that President Xi Jinping is due to attend.
#PolyU
SU Acting President Woo Kwok Wang said he decided to stay until the end as he wanted to help as much people as possible. “With one man staying inside for ten years in exchange for 7 minion people’s freedom, I don’t think this is not worth it”.
#antielab
#hongkongprotests
The security guards take the pro democracy lawmakers away one by one and
@ClaudiaMCMo
falls on the ground as she tries to stop the security guards from taking her colleague away.
#HongKongProtests
Riot police cordoned off the atrium of New Town Plaza to stop a "sing with you" protest in Sha Tin few minutes after it started. Pepper spray was fired at the crowd.
#HongKongProtests